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Metadata is Like Packaging: Seeing Beyond the Library Card Metaphor

Ontotext

way we package information has a lot to do with metadata. The somewhat conventional metaphor about metadata is the one of the library card. This metaphor has it that books are the data and library cards are the metadata helping us find what we need, want to know more about or even what we don’t know we were looking for.

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A Data Prediction for 2025

DataKitchen

Central IT Data Teams focus on standards, compliance, and cost reduction. ’ They are data enabling vs. value delivery. Their software purchase behavior will align with enabling standards for line-of-business data teams who use various tools that act on data. Recession: the party is over.

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Best Practices for Data Catalog Implementation

Octopai

For business users Data Catalogs offer a number of benefits such as better decision-making; data catalogs provide business users with quick and easy access to high-quality data. This availability of accurate and timely data enables business users to make informed decisions, improving overall business strategies.

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Constructing A Digital Transformation Strategy: Putting the Data in Digital Transformation

erwin

Once you’ve determined what part(s) of your business you’ll be innovating — the next step in a digital transformation strategy is using data to get there. Constructing A Digital Transformation Strategy: Data Enablement. Many organizations prioritize data collection as part of their digital transformation strategy.

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Usability and Connecting Threads: How Data Fabric Makes Sense Out of Disparate Data

Ontotext

A data fabric utilizes an integrated data layer over existing, discoverable, and inferenced metadata assets to support the design, deployment, and utilization of data across enterprises, including hybrid and multi-cloud platforms. It also helps capture and connect data based on business or domains.

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Data Intelligence in the Next Normal; Why, Who and When?

erwin

I have long stated that data is the lifeblood of digital transformation, and if the pandemic really has accelerated digital transformation, then the trends reported in IDC’s worldwide surveys make sense. But data without intelligence is just data, and this is WHY data intelligence is required.

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The Power of Graph Databases, Linked Data, and Graph Algorithms

Rocket-Powered Data Science

The training data and feature sets that feed machine learning algorithms can now be immensely enriched with tags, labels, annotations, and metadata that were inferred and/or provided naturally through the transformation of your repository of data into a graph of data.

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